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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear postdocs and other non-permanent researchers,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Please fill out the survey found at the link below:</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://redcap.helsinki.fi/redcap/surveys/?s=TCPL4WJJCMFAYJDM">https://redcap.helsinki.fi/redcap/surveys/?s=TCPL4WJJCMFAYJDM</a>
The questionnaire is anonymous and does not require registration.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">This survey is intended to measure the working conditions and career prospects of non-permanent researchers in the international heliospheric, magnetospheric, and ionospheric–thermospheric physics communities. We are particularly interested in the challenges faced by post-PhD researchers as they work to advance their careers.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">In this project, we are motivated by the following questions:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">1. How are postdocs doing in our field?</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">2. Are there any issues that need to be addressed? What are the causes?</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">3. What can be done to improve the situation?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">We intend to publish the survey results and use them to promote postdoc wellbeing in our community.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The survey will close on </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">January 11, 2025</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">. Be sure to submit your final answers before then, and also to share the link with other postdocs and non-permanent researchers!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">For more information, you may contact the survey administrators: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:konstantinos.horaites@helsinki.fi">konstantinos.horaites@helsinki.fi</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:giulia.cozzani@cnrs-orleans.fr">giulia.cozzani@cnrs-orleans.fr</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:eleanna.asvestari@helsinki.fi">eleanna.asvestari@helsinki.fi</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:maxime.grandin@fmi.fi">maxime.grandin@fmi.fi</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Thank you for your participation!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">– Kosta Horaites, Giulia Cozzani, Eleanna Asvestari, and Maxime Grandin
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